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David Fishel
If you are deposing a witness who, for example, was the principal respondent to a number of interrogatories, it is helpful to have all of the relevant questions and answers in one exhibit for marking and handling. PDFforLawyers.com's Dave Fishel explains how to do just that using PDF in this piece.
Dan Shea
XPLOR International will be holding the first "PDF-FORUM for Print Production" as part of its big annual event in Miami Beach in February, 2006. A supporting partner of the event, Planet PDF spoke with conference chair and well-known Swiss PDF expert Stephan Jaeggi about the highlights of this new show.
Narayan Sainaney
Ever wondered what all the fuss was about with document security? This article by Vitrium Systems President and CTO Narayan Sainaney explains the basic principles behind encryption, key length and certificate security, exploring the relative merits of each.
Dan Shea
The acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe is now complete, and the combined company can now get down to the serious business of integrating its operations. What will be the face of this new, "Macrobe?" Dan Shea speculates in his latest editorial.
Dan Shea
After the announcement of native PDF support in the next version of Office, Microsoft breaks another long-held taboo: it has moved to publish the specifications for its proprietary Office formats and applied to have them made into international standards. What is going on? Dan Shea explores the issue in his latest editorial.
Dan Shea
What is content extraction? When is it useful? What does "OCR" stand for anyway? Dan Shea addresses these questions and covers some of the tools that can help with the extraction process in his latest feature article.
Dan Shea
Since the news of the Adobe-Macromedia merger, industry analysts, bloggers and other commentators have all put in their two cents. Since opinions vary wildly from source-to-source, that has included everything from dire predictions for users to untrammeled positivity and many shades between. Dan Shea explains his take in his latest editorial.
Tom Carson
PDF has been variously called many things, but "4 foot 8½ inches" seems to be a new one. What is the relationship between PDF and this apparently arbitrary imperial measurement? Tom Carson explains in his latest article for Planet PDF.
Lee Ann Bond
This feature is a review of Windows-based business intelligence and reporting tool, Monarch V8 Professional. The product is designed to easily "mine" data from existing text-based or PDF reports -- an information source often overlooked by other BI tools. As a commercial user of the software, IPS-Sendero consultant Lee Ann Bond's review is based on firsthand experience. Read more in this review.
Pat Gilmour
Want to know how to get the color right in your PDF files? It is now easier than ever to produce reliable print-ready PDFs, however many creative professionals still make mistakes when outputting PDF files for print. This article from XChange Training's Pat Gilmour aims to help print professionals deal with colour issues in PDFs that have been incorrectly created by DTP operators.
Ted Padova
Form producers around the world now need to contend with not one, but two PDF-based forms technologies from Adobe: the older Acrobat (AKA AcroForms) model, and the newer XFA form model introduced with Adobe LiveCycle Designer. Which is better? Do we need both? Author Ted Padova's latest article for Planet PDF takes readers "under the hood" to find out.
Dan Shea
For a long time, it has appeared as though Microsoft wasn't a big fan of PDF. In recent times, the Redmond giant has released various technologies that have been tagged as "PDF killers." That may now be set to change, as the next version of Office is to have native PDF support. Dan Shea explores this topic in his latest editorial.
Dan Shea
PDF Conference is winding down, but even if you have missed out, Planet PDF has posted speaker presentation files from the show for your browsing pleasure. For those that attended the relevant sessions, the posted files might help you better understand their content; for those that could not make it, the files will give you an idea of what you missed.
Dan Shea
At the PDF Conference today, Planet PDF caught up with trainer, author and conference producer Carl Young to talk about the future of our Flash, the conference business, and Adobe's newly-minted user group initiative. Check out the details at Planet PDF.
Dan Shea
With mere days to go until the Crystal City Hilton opens its doors for the 2005 PDF Conference, PDF luminaries and neophytes alike are preparing to make their way to the US capital for a dose of PDF education. In this piece, Dan Shea previews key sessions from the show's program.
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